Film

The Critic

19821h 49mComedy

Director: Don Taylor
Year: 1982

Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacular, The Spanish Armada, confident that he has written a great play.

Top cast

Hywel Bennett

Mr. Puff / Mr. King

Nigel Hawthorne

Mr. Sneer

Norman Rodway

Mr. Dangle

Rosemary Leach

Mrs. Dangle

John Gielgud

Lord Burleigh

Alan Badel

Sir Fretful Plaigary

Anna Massey

Tilburina

Rodney Bewes

Constable

Christopher Biggins

Interpreter

Clive Francis

Sheridan (Prologue)

Directed by

Don Taylor

Written by

Don Taylor, Richard B. Sheridan

Produced by

Louis Marks